Students, staff return to Nancy Reynolds School

BROWN MOUNTAIN (By Lisa O'Donnell, Winston-Salem Journal) - The familiar chimes of a school bell echoed once more in the rolling hills that surround Nancy Reynolds Elementary School on Monday.

The sound marked more than the start of school. After spending the past 1½ years in two pods on the campus of Pinnacle Elementary School, the students and staff of Nancy Reynolds are back home, in a new school that will serve as a prototype for other schools in the county.

"It's a crown jewel in the mountains," said Stewart Hobbs, the superintendent of Stokes County schools.